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  1. Re:This is not about porn, specifically on Seattle Library Lets Man Watch Porn On Computers Despite Complaints · · Score: 1

    With all this violence, sex, whores, what have you in the bible, I don't see why not if we're trying to protect the children.

  2. Re:Sue Universal For Copyright Ingringement on Flaw In YouTube Takedown Process Exposed · · Score: 1

    Or assuming that copyrights in any way protect the little guy.

  3. Re:Misleading to call it "non-copied" on Non-Copied Photo Is Ruled Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Well that's bargaining. If the first person you talk to wants to charge too much, then you find somebody else to do it cheaper. Sort of like how Westinghouse had to create their own lightbulb when Edison wouldn't license his for the Colombian Exposition. But I do not see the 2 photographs as being similar. The subject matter in the 2 photographs is very different. The first one emphasizes the Thames and a bridge over it. In the first one, the viewer is passive, taken to the side, where the second one this is not the case. So different. He appropriated the first photographers style, but so what? Stuff like this only has a chilling effect on creativity.

    Also, I'm calling bullshit on his claim that it took him 80 hours to shoot that. I don't think I've ever spent more than 10 hours on a single shot. This includes scouting out for a location, returning to shoot, processing of film, printing, and processing of paper.

  4. Re:photograph mostly black & white except for on Non-Copied Photo Is Ruled Copyright Infringement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want examples of mostly black & white photographs with a touch of color, then you need to go back to the 19th century:
    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dubbelportr%C3%A4tt,_Sven_Alarik_Bergstr%C3%B6m_och_hans_hustru_Flore_Jos%C3%A9phine_Constance,_f._Pontus_-_Nordiska_Museet_-_NMA.0052773_1.jpg

  5. Re:Misleading to call it "non-copied" on Non-Copied Photo Is Ruled Copyright Infringement · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A derivative work is taking something and changing it, like translating it into a different lanugage or creating an abridged version. Taking ideas, and creating something that is stylisticlly similar is called art. All of the impressionists saw what monet could do with a few tubes of paint and what looked like sloppy brush strokes and created similar work. The heavy metal bands listed to steppenwolf singing about "heavy metal thunder" with loud and distorted guitars, and thought they could make something even louder. Such is art.

    Besides making a photograph mostly black and white except for a single object isn't exactly creative. The idea goes back to the days of the daguerreotype when peoples faces where hand tinted.

  6. Re:Next step on Apple's iBooks EULA Drawing Ire · · Score: 0

    That's because caffeine addicts create music!

  7. Re:Ehhhhh, and? on Apple's iBooks EULA Drawing Ire · · Score: 1

    Now if I was a heavy drinker, had mental problems that would make any shrink go "get him off, GET HIM OFF!" and blew my brains out at the end of my natural life expectancy, this post would have been a lot better.

    Those of us with severe mental problems wish we could write something good. Fact is a lot of great artist had major issues. So do a lot people who've created jack shit.

  8. Re:why phase out DVI? on VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    More like cheap adapters. HDMI is the same as DVI-D.

  9. Re:The Joke's on Them on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Speaks Out On SOPA · · Score: 1

    That assumes that Google can only serve the US or the rest of the world. Google would like to serve both.

  10. Re:Not a problem on Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server · · Score: 1

    During the 90s everyone knew how to use a CLI, and they managed. Surely the person who tasked with running a server, can take a few minutes to learn the essential commands.

  11. Re:It's not just ebooks on Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks? · · Score: 1

    Okay, the problem is with OCR, not just with google. I just brought up google because they offer epub files for a lot of the works which they have scanned. I don't think it requires any particular skill other than the ability to read to catch errors in such a document. Project Gutenberg uses volunteers for it's distributed proofreading, and I haven't found such glaring errors in any of the books I've downloaded from them. In other words, it takes a little bit of effort to produce a good quality ebook from printed material.

  12. Re:One more.... on Ubuntu TV Finally Gets a Close-Up · · Score: 1

    You seem to think that everyone else has tried and failed. Those who have licensed the right content have been successful. The only reason that there isn't such a service in Europe is because no one has created it.

  13. Re:It's not just ebooks on Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks? · · Score: 1

    TeX does a pretty good job of typesetting things, and it was created by a programmer.

    For the most part, except for bad OCRs from google, ebooks are fine. I hate when my nook hyphenates a word and lets it cross between 2 pages, but I think that's my nook doing that.

  14. Re:Is it chock full of proprietary software? on Ubuntu TV Finally Gets a Close-Up · · Score: 2

    Flash, nVidia drivers

    None of this is on the livecd, nor is it installed without asking the user, so I'm not sure why AC is complaining about this.

  15. Re:One more.... on Ubuntu TV Finally Gets a Close-Up · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Considering that netflix is the application that consumes the most bandwidth on the internet, I have to ask you what the hell your talking about.

  16. Re:Christians are in Favour of SOPA on Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters · · Score: 1

    Just because someone thinks piracy is wrong, doesn't mean that they'd support the DMCA or SOPA.

  17. Re:Accidental overdose? on The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives · · Score: 1

    I'm not an expert, but I'd think that you'd also need to consider how the drug is partitioned in the body - if it is more lipid-soluble then body fat might matter more, and so on.

    You might want to look at numbers like volume of distribution, and protein binding. These numbers should be available in the prescribing information. There are a few more variables, like the metabolism of the drug. Even knowing this, very few drugs have a known serum levels that is known to induce the desired effect. Mix in things like (cross) tolerance, differences the severity of illness, presence or absence of side effects, trial and error is probably the best idea.

    Like the GP, I'll leave the disclaimer that I'm not a doctor, and if your using my advice to determine anything of a medical nature, then your insane.

  18. Re:Phase 2 on Dell Ditches Netbooks · · Score: 1

    Try using one with the mouse buttons in the trackpad area. Dell was a minor player in the netbook market, so this isn't such a big deal.

  19. Re:hipaa violation as well? on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 2

    Except the guy has already done something wrong. So he's being punished for violating an order which was pretty clear.

  20. Re:I can see it now... on Facebook Launches Suicide-Prevention Effort · · Score: 1

    The whole thing sounds like something cooked up by lawyers to limit their liability in case someone offs themselves. They connect the person to a third party councilor, so facebook can say, we tried, but it wasn't our fault that this third party said the wrong thing.

  21. Re:Link to the book on Isaac Newton's Notes Digitized · · Score: 3, Informative

    The interesting part of this release is not that book, but the notebooks, so the link in the story is correct.

  22. Re:Maybe V2 will be better on Many Early Adopters of the Amazon Fire Are Unhappy · · Score: 1

    Considering the point of the device, I doubt it. Why would you upload your music to your amazon cloud drive when you could simply store it on a micro sd card?

  23. Re:Ah good old Kim on Pop Artists Support Megaupload; Universal Censors · · Score: 1

    Okay, I got confused because this story isn't about a guy who borrowed someone's cellphone. The police charged him with fraud, handling stolen goods, and insider trading. The only person calling him a hacker is himself, and any media outlet stupid enough to print what he says. And psychopaths like him are generally truth challenged, and can easily claim any number of qualifications which are false, this one claimed him to be a hacker. Considering that the police charged him for earning millions of dollars through less the honest means, and never charged him for being a hacker, I'm not sure what the point of your post was.

  24. Re:Ah good old Kim on Pop Artists Support Megaupload; Universal Censors · · Score: 1

    Why would the police care if the person they capture is a real hacker? If a script kiddie steals credit cards numbers, does it make any difference that they weren't clever enough to do it on their own?

  25. Re:Intercontinental! on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    Now, if only you could power this ICBM with salami. Now that's a tasty projectile.